Rupert Murdoch Pie to the Face

Plain-clothes clown infiltrates hearing, slaps shaving cream pie in Rupert Murdoch's face.
possomsays...

>> ^BoneRemake:

Thats a really shitty video, I dont see any pie. If there is a different angle I would replace it, this doesn't show anything. They could all have been high fiving.


To my knowledge, there was only one camera in the room. I was watching live as it happened, and have seen on the news since. I don't think you will see another angle unless someone happened to be recording with their phone.

xxovercastxxsays...

I love how people react when these things happen.

"Oh my god! No!"

Settle down, folks, it's a pie.

It's interesting to consider, though, how difficult it would be to smuggle an uncovered pie. I'd think a billy club would be easier (and obviously way more dangerous) which tells me that the security team should really be canned.

longdesays...

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I love how people react when these things happen.
"Oh my god! No!"
Settle down, folks, it's a pie.
It's interesting to consider, though, how difficult it would be to smuggle an uncovered pie. I'd think a billy club would be easier (and obviously way more dangerous) which tells me that the security team should really be canned.


More likely he snuck in a small tube of shaving cream and a folded paper receptacle.

possomsays...

What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.

RedSkysays...

This is awesome for so many reasons.

1 - There's an organisation called the PIE BRIGADE.
2 - The guy who does it has the most hilarious outrage voice ever.
3 - Somebody's like what's you're name and he's like EWAN BROWN BITCH.
4 - Guy talks about people being force fed genetically modified food and the cows moo in dissaproval.
5 - There's a fucking montage of pie-facing at the end.
>> ^BoneRemake:




THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT !

Morganthsays...

This was really stupid. I was watching it live and a few MPs were really grilling the Murdochs, including the one who was interrupted by this pie attack. If you don't like Rupert Murdoch, let him be interrogated! All this did was give him sympathy because you just hit an 80-year old man in the face. Now, instead of the headlines being about some of the questions that were asked and their responses, they're about pie.

kceaton1says...

>> ^bareboards2:

I loved the woman who jumped in and slapped at the perp. Totally ineffective but man, she was ready to mix it up!


I like how his wife just jumps on top of people to get that crappy ass slap in, while completely trampling someone...

Deanosays...

>> ^bareboards2:

I loved the woman who jumped in and slapped at the perp. Totally ineffective but man, she was ready to mix it up!


Everything I've read suggests she slapped the guy and then used the pie on him. Which explains why he was wearing most of the foam and the police, oddly, were dabbing it off him on camera.

bcglorfsays...

After Murdoch's little prank with switching up the drugs Sean Hoare bought you'd think he'd have a sense of humour about this...



I hope i just made a joke and not an insightful commentary on the real world.

xxovercastxxsays...

>> ^possom:

What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.


There are only 9999 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.

Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?

Deanosays...

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^possom:
What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.

There are only 9999 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.
Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?


These guys aren't that smart. The majority of people aren't that smart and so, yes, entering default pins is characterised as "hacking". However it's done it still means an offence under the RIP Act. Of course it would be interesting if they did secure some hacker's services to brute force passwords. Nothing would surprise me from hereon in.

Story goes that some guy in the early days of phone use alerted a tabloid to this problem who surprisingly did not get back to him or run a story based on the tip. What happened is that the practice rapidly spread through Fleet Street. Another little scam journalists would do is hand new phones to crime victims they had access to so they could "stay in touch". The phones either had the default pin or changed to one the journalist knew.

messengersays...

"0000" is a valid password.</pedanatry>>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^possom:
What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.

There are only 999910,000 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.
Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?

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